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Claudia Martínez Garay
Ghost Kingdom, GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US), 9 September - 15 October 2022

Claudia Martínez Garay: Ghost Kingdom

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Works
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Preguntitas a la Tierra / Little questions to the Ground, 2022 Acrylic on cut out plywood and varnish 290 x 450 cm | 114 1/8 x 177 1/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Preguntitas a la Tierra / Little questions to the Ground, 2022
    Acrylic on cut out plywood and varnish
    290 x 450 cm | 114 1/8 x 177 1/8 in
    Reserved
  • a tufting wall piece -- textile work depicting a bright mountainous illustrated landscape framed by bright aqua geometry
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Mana wañunqachu huq k'anchay / Una luz que nunca se apagará / A light that will never go out, 2020
    Tufting and mural
    200 x 155 cm | 78 3/4 x 61 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Ghost Kingdom, 2022 Painted wall mural, Sublimated print on aluminum (9 parts), steel stand (6 parts) 505.5 x 472.4 x 292.1 cm | 199 x 186 x 115 in (approx.) The aluminum plants are available individually, please contact for more information.
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Ghost Kingdom, 2022
    Painted wall mural, Sublimated print on aluminum (9 parts), steel stand (6 parts)
    505.5 x 472.4 x 292.1 cm | 199 x 186 x 115 in (approx.)

    The aluminum plants are available individually, please contact for more information.
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Pichqayuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Pichqayuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • very small ceramics pieces atop a yellow platform. the pieces depict a person holding a bag containing a torso, a basket of objects, a cow, a bowl of what appear to be potatoes, and a very small sitting figure
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    mujer con bebé y señora vende queso y su vaca / Mother with baby and woman selling cheese with her cow, 2019-2022
    Ceramic
    15 x 40 x 28 cm | 5 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 11 1/8 in (approx.)
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Suqtayuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Suqtayuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Tawayuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Tawayuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • a small model of ceramic vessels atop a geometrically patterned rug. The model is sitting atop a turquoise platform
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Manto con ollita, 2021
    Ceramic
    5 x 8 x 4 cm | 2 x 3 1/8 x 1 5/8 in (approx.)
    Sold
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Hukniyuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Hukniyuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Iskayniyuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Iskayniyuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Chunka Kimsayuq Pacha, 2022 Tufting 250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Chunka Kimsayuq Pacha, 2022
    Tufting
    250 x 156 cm | 98 3/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Claudia Martínez Garay ya, pero sólo una, 2021 Ceramic 15 x 12 cm | 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in (approx.)
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    ya, pero sólo una, 2021
    Ceramic
    15 x 12 cm | 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in (approx.)
  • a small ceramic cream and red matchbox
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    La Llama, 2021
    Ceramic
    7.6 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm | 3 x 2 x 2 in (approx.)
  • a small ceramic model of a rust colored box filled with bottles, and accompanying cups outside of the box
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Jonca de chelas, 2021
    Ceramic
    5.1 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm | 2 x 2 x 2 in (approx.)
    Sold
  • small ceramic piece of three birds perched on a stick atop a turquoise platform
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Rama de gallos, 2021
    Ceramic
    35 x 30 x 8 cm | 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3 1/8 in (approx.)
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Iskay Chaupi, 2021 Printed textile with painted frame 113 x 103.5 cm | 44 1/2 x 40 3/4 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Iskay Chaupi, 2021
    Printed textile with painted frame
    113 x 103.5 cm | 44 1/2 x 40 3/4 in
    Sold
  • Claudia Martínez Garay Huk Chaupi, 2021 Printed textile with painted frame 113 x 103.5 cm | 44 1/2 x 40 3/4 in
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Huk Chaupi, 2021
    Printed textile with painted frame
    113 x 103.5 cm | 44 1/2 x 40 3/4 in
  • Cut-out plywood shapes and figures layered on top of each other. The rectangular shapes are pink, blue, and yellow, and the figures are of a kangaroo, a solider, a boot, a jaguar, a snake, an ostrich, and a tiger.
    Claudia Martínez Garay
    Front Line, 2022
    Acrylic on cut out plywood and varnish
    151.3 x 132.2 cm | 59 5/8 x 52 1/8 in
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Installation Views
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  • Claudia Martinez Garay Ghost Kingdom Installation View 1 On White Wall
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Press
  • Tone Shifting: Claudia Martínez Garay Interviewed by Melissa Joseph

    Melissa Joseph, BOMB Magazine, October 11, 2022
Press release
Pacha 11, 2022
Pacha 11, 2022
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GRIMM is pleased to present Ghost Kingdom, an exhibition by Claudia Martínez Garay, on view from September 9 to October 15, 2022. A walk-through with Marcela Guerrero, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will take place in the gallery on Saturday, September 10th at 11:30. (RSVP: info@grimmgallery.com)

In Ghost Kingdom, Claudia Martínez Garay continues her ongoing investigative practice of history and memory in her home country of Peru concerning racism, war, social prosecution, and the legacies of colonialism toward the Andean people. Martínez Garay creates a body of work that articulates a powerful auto-narrative of a culture constantly mediating its interrupted pasts. 

In Preguntitas a la Tierra (Little questions to the Land (Ground, Soil, Dirt), pamphlets distributed as propaganda between the 1970’s to the 1990’s in Peru and its surrounding region are appropriated and reconfigured. Martínez Garay interrogates this circulation of media by collaging these signs in juxtaposition to each other, forming a landscape that re-appropriates their methods of signification to describe many commonalities felt throughout Latin America, left in the aftermath of colonialism, religious upheaval, dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, and civil war.

In her recent Pacha works, symbols of Andean cosmology, native cultures of Peru, ethnographic journals, western chronicles of the land, and personal history are physically woven together. These multi-temporal visual gatherings -at times deeply introspective, at others anthropological- are charged with symbolism. This ongoing series reflects on time and its passing, complicating our understanding of what constitutes a historic document, and seeks to defy linear time. For the artist, these seven new textile works animate flashbacks through time, where the gaps in personal and collective history are often masked in the long durée of political upheaval. 

In a series of new sculptures, academic drawings of native flora from the South American region are printed on aluminum panels and placed throughout the gallery. Transformed out of their anthropological context, these works form an uncanny terrain where their flat imagery emphasizes the alien means of their documentation and questions the history of categorization, which affects our ideas of their natural belonging.

GRIMM will also present Ayataki (2022), a new animated video and surround sound installation by the artist, commissioned and produced by Artpace, San Antonio, and the Denver Art Museum. The video-sound installation recently debuted in Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art, currently on view at Denver Art Museum. Through visuals and a collaged original score, reinterpreted with a synthesizer by the artist, Peruvian Andean folkloric music is intertwined with Quechua church melodies, radio transmissions, Spanish dialogues, sorrowful voices, pan-flutes, raging guitars, and radio commercial propaganda to relay a tale of forced displacement due to violence and war. The radio tower, the bomb cars, and burned rural houses- often targeted by the terrorist group Shinning Path during the internal war in Peru have become symbols of terror, loss, and despair of that time. This work as a whole is a lamentation on the Andean landscape. Social issues and historical events are presented in a nonlinear narrative, and the mixed poetic and formal composition of sound constructs a solemn funeral cadence which sonically reflects a mourning for those who did not survive the war.

Throughout all of Ghost Kingdom Martínez Garay shows that recorded history and media, although divisive, can -and has been- reclaimed by the people of Peru and its surrounding regions. Claudia Martínez Garay's striking installation practice, brilliant use of color, and varied configurations of scale and material reminds us of the importance of collective mythologies in reclaiming symbols of the past through alternative methods of storytelling practiced throughout South American communities to challenge hegemonic colonial narratives and propose alternative futures. 

Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983 in Ayacucho, Peru) studied printmaking at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru (PE) and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (NL) 2016 and 2017. Recent solo exhibitions includeCaminos de Liberación, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) in 2021 and Ten Thousand Things, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN) in 2020. Selected group exhibitions include, Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, CO (US) in 2022;  consume by, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (NL) in 2022; No Linear Fucking Time, B.A.K., basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL) in 2021; All Eyes | We are the collection, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) in 2021; Plural Domains, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (US) in 2021; 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden (DE) in 2020; The Faculty of Sensing: Anton Wilhelm Amo, Kunstverein, Braunschweig and SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (DE) in 2020; Imagined Communities, 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo (BR) in 2019; the 16th Istanbul Biennal titled The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Istanbul (TR) in 2019; Immortality, 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Xiaoyu Weng, Ekaterinburg (RU) in 2019; Diplomacy at Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY (US) in 2019; Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Triennial, Aichi (JP) in 2019; Pro-Regress, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, the 12th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (CN) in 2018; and Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York, NY (US) in 2018.

Her work can be found in the collections of Museum Arnhem (NL); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN); Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Fundación Studie e Richerche Benetton, Treviso (IT); Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Lima (PE);  CIFO Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL (US); KADIST Collection (FR); KPMG Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Lima Art Museum (MALI) (PE); LOOP Collection lent to MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES); Micromuseo al fondo hay sitio, Lima (PE); Museu Olho Latino, Atibaia (BR), among others.

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  • Tone Shifting: Claudia Martínez Garay Interviewed by Melissa Joseph Press

    Tone Shifting: Claudia Martínez Garay Interviewed by Melissa Joseph

    BOMB Magazine Oct 11, 2022
    Multidisciplinary artwork connected to the histories of Peru.
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